It can be said of very few books that the world was changed as a result of its publication - but this is certainly the case of Capital: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx (1818-1883). Volume 1 appeared (in German) in 1867, and the two subsequent volumes appeared at later dates after the author's death - completed from extensive notes left by Marx himself.

1 out of 5 stars

Aid to suicide

By
Mr
on
10-07-18

Citizen Clem

A Biography of Attlee

By:
John Bew

Narrated by:
Roger Davis

Length: 26 hrs and 45 mins

Unabridged

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4.5 out of 5 stars
125

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115

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Clement Attlee was the Labour prime minister who presided over Britain's radical postwar government, delivering the end of the empire in India, the foundation of the NHS and Britain's place in NATO. Called 'a sheep in sheep's clothing', his reputation has long been that of an unassuming character in the shadow of Churchill. But as John Bew's revelatory biography shows, Attlee was not only a hero of his age but an emblem of it, and his life tells the story of how Britain changed over the 20th century.

5 out of 5 stars

Outstanding biography

By
michael Billington
on
11-09-17

Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life

By:
Jonathan Sperber

Narrated by:
Kevin Stillwell

Length: 22 hrs and 49 mins

Unabridged

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Returning Marx to the Victorian confines of the 19th century, Jonathan Sperber, one of the United States' leading European historians, challenges many of our misconceptions of this political firebrand turned London journalist. In this deeply humanizing portrait, Marx no longer is the Olympian soothsayer, divining the dialectical imperatives of human history, but a scholar-activist whose revolutionary Weltanschauung was closer to Robespierre's than to those of 20th-century Marxists.

Formative Early Writings by Karl Marx

By:
Karl Marx

Narrated by:
Derek Le Page

Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins

Unabridged

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Though Karl Marx is best known for Capital and The Communist Manifesto, his revolutionary thoughts and ideas had developed over decades spent in study, discussion and association with a variety of organisations throughout Europe and the US, intent on challenging the establishment order. These six very different texts show how Marx’s ideas evolved and how increasingly fierce his views became.

The Communist Manifesto

By:
Karl Marx,
Friedrich Engels

Narrated by:
Charles Armstrong,
Roy McMillan

Length: 1 hr and 53 mins

Unabridged

Overall

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56

Performance

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43

Story

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Without question one of the most significant books in modern history,
The Communist Manifesto is a brief, populist pamphlet that distils the core ideas of communism into accessible prose. Published just months before violent uprisings threatened to destabilise much of the European establishment, it outlines a view of history as a constant battle between the classes that will inevitably result in revolution.

5 out of 5 stars

insightful

By
Amazon Customer
on
16-09-17

Fascism

What It Is and How to Fight It

By:
Leon Trotsky

Narrated by:
Will Stauff

Length: 1 hr and 24 mins

Unabridged

Overall

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2

Performance

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Writing in the heat of struggle against the rise of fascism in Germany, France, and Spain in the 1930s, communist leader Leon Trotsky examines the class origins and character of fascist movements. Building on foundations laid by the Communist International in Lenin's time, Trotsky advances a working-class strategy to combat and defeat this malignant danger.

It can be said of very few books that the world was changed as a result of its publication - but this is certainly the case of Capital: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx (1818-1883). Volume 1 appeared (in German) in 1867, and the two subsequent volumes appeared at later dates after the author's death - completed from extensive notes left by Marx himself.

1 out of 5 stars

Aid to suicide

By
Mr
on
10-07-18

Citizen Clem

A Biography of Attlee

By:
John Bew

Narrated by:
Roger Davis

Length: 26 hrs and 45 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
125

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
115

Story

5 out of 5 stars
114

Clement Attlee was the Labour prime minister who presided over Britain's radical postwar government, delivering the end of the empire in India, the foundation of the NHS and Britain's place in NATO. Called 'a sheep in sheep's clothing', his reputation has long been that of an unassuming character in the shadow of Churchill. But as John Bew's revelatory biography shows, Attlee was not only a hero of his age but an emblem of it, and his life tells the story of how Britain changed over the 20th century.

5 out of 5 stars

Outstanding biography

By
michael Billington
on
11-09-17

Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life

By:
Jonathan Sperber

Narrated by:
Kevin Stillwell

Length: 22 hrs and 49 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
21

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
20

Story

4 out of 5 stars
18

Returning Marx to the Victorian confines of the 19th century, Jonathan Sperber, one of the United States' leading European historians, challenges many of our misconceptions of this political firebrand turned London journalist. In this deeply humanizing portrait, Marx no longer is the Olympian soothsayer, divining the dialectical imperatives of human history, but a scholar-activist whose revolutionary Weltanschauung was closer to Robespierre's than to those of 20th-century Marxists.

Formative Early Writings by Karl Marx

By:
Karl Marx

Narrated by:
Derek Le Page

Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins

Unabridged

Overall

5 out of 5 stars
1

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
1

Story

5 out of 5 stars
1

Though Karl Marx is best known for Capital and The Communist Manifesto, his revolutionary thoughts and ideas had developed over decades spent in study, discussion and association with a variety of organisations throughout Europe and the US, intent on challenging the establishment order. These six very different texts show how Marx’s ideas evolved and how increasingly fierce his views became.

The Communist Manifesto

By:
Karl Marx,
Friedrich Engels

Narrated by:
Charles Armstrong,
Roy McMillan

Length: 1 hr and 53 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
56

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
43

Story

3.5 out of 5 stars
43

Without question one of the most significant books in modern history,
The Communist Manifesto is a brief, populist pamphlet that distils the core ideas of communism into accessible prose. Published just months before violent uprisings threatened to destabilise much of the European establishment, it outlines a view of history as a constant battle between the classes that will inevitably result in revolution.

5 out of 5 stars

insightful

By
Amazon Customer
on
16-09-17

Fascism

What It Is and How to Fight It

By:
Leon Trotsky

Narrated by:
Will Stauff

Length: 1 hr and 24 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
2

Performance

3 out of 5 stars
1

Story

5 out of 5 stars
1

Writing in the heat of struggle against the rise of fascism in Germany, France, and Spain in the 1930s, communist leader Leon Trotsky examines the class origins and character of fascist movements. Building on foundations laid by the Communist International in Lenin's time, Trotsky advances a working-class strategy to combat and defeat this malignant danger.

4 out of 5 stars

Trotsky on Fascism

By
tim
on
15-10-18

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

By:
Ilan Pappe

Narrated by:
Paul Boehmer

Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
10

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Story

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Renowned Israeli historian Ilan Pappe's groundbreaking book revisits the formation of the State of Israel. Between 1947 and 1949, over 400 Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed, civilians were massacred, and around a million men, women, and children were expelled from their homes at gunpoint. Denied for almost six decades, had it happened today it could only have been called "ethnic cleansing."

5 out of 5 stars

Zionism soon after the Nais

By
Amazon Customer
on
27-02-18

Culture and Imperialism

By:
Edward W. Said

Narrated by:
Peter Ganim

Length: 19 hrs and 59 mins

Unabridged

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A landmark work from the intellectually auspicious author of
Orientalism, this book explores the long-overlooked connections between the Western imperial endeavor and the culture that both reflected and reinforced it. This classic study, the direct successor to Said's main work, is read by Peter Ganim (
Orientalism).

5 out of 5 stars

Said: a most eminent thinker

By
Lotika Singha
on
10-12-17

Why Marx Was Right

2nd Edition

By:
Terry Eagleton

Narrated by:
Roger Clark

Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins

Unabridged

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In this combative, controversial book, Terry Eagleton takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism is dead and done with. Taking 10 of the most common objections to Marxism - that it leads to political tyranny, that it reduces everything to the economic, that it is a form of historical determinism, and so on - he demonstrates in each case what a woeful travesty of Marx's own thought these assumptions are.

5 out of 5 stars

Great

By
james
on
16-06-18

The Anatomy of Fascism

By:
Robert O. Paxton

Narrated by:
Arthur Morey

Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins

Unabridged

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What is fascism? By focusing on the concrete, what the fascists did rather than what they said, the esteemed historian Robert O. Paxton answers this question for the first time. From the first violent uniformed bands beating up "enemies of the state", through Mussolini's rise to power, to Germany's fascist radicalization in World War II, Paxton shows clearly why fascists came to power in some countries and not others.

4 out of 5 stars

Thematical yet narrative.

By
Anthony
on
28-04-18

The World as Will And Idea, Volume 1

By:
Arthur Schopenhauer

Narrated by:
Leighton Pugh

Length: 20 hrs and 26 mins

Unabridged

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Schopenhauer was just 30 when his magnum opus,
Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung, a work of considerable learning and innovation of thought, first appeared in 1818.

Much to his chagrin and puzzlement (so convinced was he of its merits), it didn't have an immediate effect on European philosophy, views and culture. It was only decades later that it was recognised as one of the major intellectual landmarks of the 19th century.

5 out of 5 stars

Excellent reading

By
Hawfinch
on
25-02-17

The Socratic Dialogues: Early Period, Volume 1

The Apology, Crito, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, Menexenus, Ion

By:
Plato,
Benjamin Jowett - translator

Narrated by:
David Rintoul,
full cast

Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins

Unabridged

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Here are the
Socratic Dialogues presented as Plato designed them to be - living discussions between friends and protagonists, with the personality of Socrates himself coming alive as he deals with a host of subjects, from justice and inspiration to courage, poetry and the gods. Plato's
Socratic Dialogues provide a bedrock for classical Western philosophy. For centuries they have been read, studied and discussed via the flat pages of books, but the ideal medium for them is the spoken word.

5 out of 5 stars

A masterful recording brings Plato back to life

By
Chris
on
27-11-17

Ten Days That Shook the World

By:
John Reed

Narrated by:
George Backman

Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins

Unabridged

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A journalist writing in the first flush of revolutionary enthusiasm, John Reed gives a gripping record of the events in Petrograd in November 1917, when Lenin and the Bolsheviks finally seized power. Containing verbatim reports both of speeches by leaders and the chance comments of bystanders, set against an idealized backcloth of the proletariat, soldiers, sailors, and peasants uniting to throw off oppression, Reed's account is the product of passionate involvement and remains a classic of reporting.

5 out of 5 stars

fantastic Audiobook

By
Owen McCracken
on
15-12-16

Capital: Volume 2

A Critique of Political Economy

By:
Karl Marx

Narrated by:
Derek Le Page

Length: 29 hrs and 34 mins

Unabridged

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Following Marx’s death in 1883, Engels was able to step into the breach and, drawing on Marx’s extensive notes and writings, complete volume 2 of Capital, leading to its publication in 1885. Here, Marx turns his attention to the money owner, the money lender, the wholesale merchant, the trader and the entrepreneur or 'functioning capitalist.'

Foucault: Philosophy in an Hour

By:
Paul Strathern

Narrated by:
Jonathan Keeble

Length: 1 hr and 34 mins

Unabridged

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Philosophy for busy people. Listen to a succinct account of the philosophy of Foucault in just one hour. The French philosopher Michel Foucault set about his task rather like a historian. After painstaking research, he concluded that knowledge and power were intimately related throughout history.

4 out of 5 stars

Interesting but...

By
Joanna
on
10-11-16

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (AmazonClassics Edition)

By:
Mary Wollstonecraft

Narrated by:
Jan Cramer

Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins

Unabridged

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First published in 1792, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman tackles many of the punitive patriarchal attitudes that dominated 18th-century society. With warmth and passion, Mary Wollstonecraft urges women to prioritize reason over emotion - a necessary step in building the strength of character required to break free from male notions of female fragility and foolishness. Wollstonecraft bases much of her argument in the case for women's education. Without it, women are merely men's "slaves" and "playthings" - not the intelligent, rational companions of a just and equal society.

Black Against Empire

The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party

By:
Joshua Bloom,
Waldo E. Martin Jr.

Narrated by:
Ron Butler

Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins

Unabridged

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In Oakland, California, in 1966, community college students Bobby Seale and Huey Newton armed themselves, began patrolling the police, and promised to prevent police brutality. Unlike the Civil Rights Movement that called for full citizenship rights for blacks within the US, the Black Panther Party rejected the legitimacy of the US government and positioned itself as part of a global struggle against American imperialism.

5 out of 5 stars

just the facts. <br />

By
Aston Jones
on
20-09-16

A People’s History of the World

From the Stone Age to the New Millennium

By:
Chris Harman

Narrated by:
Napoleon Ryan

Length: 29 hrs and 44 mins

Unabridged

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4 out of 5 stars
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Chris Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals. Interacting with the forces of technological change as well as the impact of powerful individuals and revolutionary ideas, these societies have engendered events familiar to every schoolchild-from the empires of antiquity to the world wars of the 20th century. In a bravura conclusion, Chris Harman exposes the reductive complacency of contemporary capitalism.

4 out of 5 stars

Totally Absorbing (but I have a gripe)

By
Mr. Ninian Reid
on
10-09-17

Summary

In 1871, the Franco-Prussian War was raging. The workers of Paris, fed up with a government that had begun the hated war, and the exploitation, repression, and abuse of "their" government, took matters into their own hands. They instituted the Paris Commune - of, by, and for the workers.

Observing these events through news reports of the time, one of the foremost thinkers of the 19th century, Karl Marx, made three speeches to the International Workmen's Association. He reported and analyzed this workers' revolt against their masters, with thoughts that are still fresh and sadly relevant today.

The 1891 introduction by Fredrick Engels has some very spooky passages about the inequality of the classes not only in monarchical Europe, but also in the "democracy" of the US. In light of 21st-century American events, this material shows that the more things change, the more they don't. Vive la revolution!